INDIANA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 4S9 



Mr. Uitterskaiui): Wliat do you prefer, tlio Jonathan or the Wine- 

 sap? At present we are preferrlnj? the Jonathan, seeing that the wood is 

 more uprijrht and it is not so willowy. 



Mr. Simpson: I should saj% notice your local soil as to what is best 

 of these four varieties. If the Jonathan will be most profitable for you, 

 plant the Jonatlian; if tlie Grimes is the most profitable, plant the Grimes; 

 if the Winesap will do the best for you, plant the Winesap; and if you find 

 the Rome Beauty does the best, plant that. I would raise whatever 

 seemed most adapted to ray soil; but some of the varieties are more sub- 

 ject to scab than others. There were certain old varieties that we had at 

 one time that we discarded because of their l)eing subject to that disease. 

 The Jonathan is a good, thrifty grower. 



Mr Ritterskamp: Is there any reason wliy the Jonathan should 

 grow bettt'V and be more thrifty than the Winesap? 



Mr. Simpson: I think not; the Winesap is a sprangly grower and 

 spreads out a good deal, but the Jonathan is a more willowy tree, we find, 

 than the Winesap. 



Mr. Thomas, of Harrison County: AVouldn't you put the Ben Davis, 

 which I see you omit entirely, close to the top of the list? 



Mr. Sii'-M'^tJi'^ ^'<J> 1 would not; I omitted that simply because Illinois 

 is the Ben Davis State, and they can not raise a Winesap there like we do 

 hero in Indiana, and if we can raise something of better quality, and as 

 beautiful, why not raise that? 



Mr. Thomas: Down in my locality we make five dollars out of the 

 Ben Davis for every one dollar we make out of the Winesap. 



Mr. Simpson: Do you spray your apples well? 



Mr. Thomas: Yes, we spray them all, and throw most of the Wine- 

 saps away. The Winesap is particularly susceptible to scab, and that 

 has caused a good many to abandon that variety. 



Mr. Morgan: Is the Winesap as susceptilile to rot as the Ben Davis? 



Mr. Simpson: Xo, I think not. 



Mr. Morgan: Ts t1i>. s;i.\i\ii'n \Vini'<;ip .-iny iiiiprdvcniont on the old 

 variety? 



Mr. Simpson: I have uo experience with that, aiul can not answer. 



All I go by is the reputation. I have hoard of it, and they say the quality 



. is very fine, and many say it is better than the old Winesap; but I do not 



think it has been tried enough to juslify us in saying it is better. If we 



